One Chance (a short flash game)

I didn't catch the meaning of the grandparent until I read your comment, then I re-read it and the implication hit me in the face. Thank you for making me realize that it was supposed to be cringe inducing.

It depends I think on the nature of the cure or antidote. Is it a substance that has to be replicated and continually administered or is it a vaccine?

The Earth is a really big place and I think if the father has an IQ of about 140+ (seem probable considering the team he was a part of) and the daughter is somewhere about 130+ he could probably be able to eventually teach his daughter everything he knows in his own field.

A few decades living off supplies seems like plenty of time for them to find a way to splice up resistance into a simple photosynthesis capable organism. Worst case scenario they can structure everything around making sure the technology behind replicating more of the substance is completely understood and simplified as much as possible to keep the few crops alive.

Genetically speaking I think we can find a easy way around father daughter incest, some sperm banks are presumably still intact. However the real problem is with the daughter giving birth to enough children to have a viable population. Also keeping those children in line without them going wild will be hard with a adult who is severely traumatised and the young mother who will have a very great dependency on him (all social interaction ever until the children grow somewhat).

I'm trying to figure out what is better, earlier pregnancies (17+ ish) for a larger and more variable starting population of the world's last animals? Or more years studying medicine in hopes of minimizing the odds of the daughter dying in childbirth?

Sexuality would be very explosive in such a tiny community of half siblings, a aligning old grandfather and a somewhat confused and out of place mother (who is possibly fixated on the grandfather sexually, a major side order of frustration, as well as emotionally). Perhaps it would be wisest to make the first generation all female in order to maximize reproductive potential? Perhaps using drugs that kill the libido should become a fixture for the society until there are at least a few settlements of perhaps a dozen people each with the full know how of replicating the antidote to keep sexual issues on a hold for a few generations?

Hard to say but I'd guess a rather long time. There earth is a big place and there wouldn't be much else around to consume or otherwise destroy the reserves of the necessities of life.

But without wanting to distract with too many technical qualifications I was actually working on the assumption from elsewhere in this thread that the trees turned out ok.

I've played that :) It's cool & does have a chilling effect. If I still thought nuclear war was the most terrible thing likely to happen (oh, such innocent times) if would probably have affected me lots.

So what's the common theme? Looks like we need eerie background music, low budget, basic/retro graphics, end of the world theme, player responsible for billions of deaths... :-o

PS. Roger Ebert is prepared to believe that "video games can be elegant, subtle, sophisticated, challenging, and visually wonderful". I think he should taboo "art".

Hmmm.... can I have another chance at this?

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Va 'Rirel Qnl' (gnxra gb or fgnaqvat nybar orpnhfr vg'f gur svefg tnzr) gur zrffntr (vtabevat gur fhvpvqr) nccrnef gb or "Lbh pna frrx bhg zrnavatshy rkcrevraprf va nal pbagrkg, rira vs gur pbagrkg frrzf gbgnyyl fbhy pehfuvat ng svefg tynapr." Gung'f npghnyyl n zrffntr V ernyyl yvxr! Ohg gura gur fhvpvqr ng gur raq... htu. Naq gura lbh jnxr hc NALJNL naq gur jbeyq vf rzcgl naq lbh trg gb jnyx nebhaq n gbgnyyl rzcgl jbexcynpr (anxrq vs lbh jnag) hagvy lbh tb hc gb gur ebbs naq frr lbhefrys whzc bss. V'z fgvyy fpengpuvat zl urnq bire gung bar. Fhvpvqr tbbq? Fhvpvqr onq?

Va n pbhcyr cynprf V gubhtug znlor vg jnf shapgvbavat ba n ernyvfgvp gvzrfpnyr fb V jnvgrq sbe 4 zvahgrf sbe gur genssvp fvtany gb punatr naq yrg zr pebff gur fgerrg. Vg qvqa'g jbex sbe gur fvtany ohg vg qvq jbex sbe gur yrns. V'z nyzbfg jbaqrevat vs lbh cynlrq gur tnzr sbe 2000 qnlf jbhyq lbh trg cebzbgrq be fbzrguvat? Jbhyq xvqf fubj hc? Gung jbhyq or xvaq bs njrfbzr, vg vg jbexrq gung jnl, ohg V qba'g jnag gb fcraq gur gvzr gb grfg gur gurbel.

And now I know what those characters might feel like.

A rational intelligence would have acted otherwise, but I'm not one, and it's good to be reminded of that.

I tried that the second time around - the lab is locked that day, and it skips right to the next one after the cutscene.

(It's possible to try again by right-clicking on the game, selecting 'settings', setting it so that the game isn't allowed to store any data on your machine, and then reloading the page.)

According to the creator of the game, the majority of players die, along with the rest of the world.

I'm not sure (and I haven't seen clarifying remarks from the creator), but it seems likely that not everyone else died. Notice the trees in the park are green again.

Hmmm... On the day the suicide happens, I'm pretty sure the door to the lab is locked.

Other people value closure/dying well, I'm guessing. I heard many commenters say that they went to the park on the last day.